CONSPIRACY?? SHOCKING Evidence Of Big Tech COLLUSION With BIG GOVERNMENT | America First Ep. 1054CONSPIRACY?? SHOCKING Evidence Of Big Tech COLLUSION With BIG GOVERNMENT | America First Ep. 1054
In this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes talks about the White House's attempt to censor the internet, a new Bank of America policy aimed at increasing Black and Hispanic home ownership, and the impact it could have on the housing market. America First is a show about the intersection of politics, economics, culture, and pop culture presented through the eyes of the people who actually care about what s happening in the world and the people we should care about. America First's mission is to inform, inform, and empower people to make informed decisions about their lives, their futures, and their economic well-being through the power and information provided by the media, social media, and other forms of communication. In this episode, we discuss: - The White House is trying to censor and moderate the internet. - Big Tech's relationship with the government. - A new policy from the bank that could hurt black and Hispanic homeowners in the most expensive neighborhoods in America. -- What could go wrong with this policy? -- Is this a good or bad thing? -- and what could it mean for the economy and the housing crisis? -- and how will it affect the economy? -- we'll talk about that and much more on today's show! Subscribe to America First! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podchaser Subscribe on Stitcher Learn more about our sponsorships and become a supporter of our show on PODCAST Connect with us on Anchor.fm Learn about our upcoming fundraisers and sponsor us on our new podcast, America First: A Place, the podcast where we'll be giving you the best deals on the highest quality, highest-rated podcast in the country! and we'll give you access to the best independent podcasts, the most authentic and the most personalized experience in the best viably authentic takes on the best places to listen to the most influential podcasts on the road and most authentic stories from the best of the best podcasts in the highest vizziest places in the entire country. and the best tips and places to get the most affordable and most affordable travel and most accessible everywhere you can get the best travel and coolest places on the cheapest rates in the fastest most affordable everywhere in the cheapestest on the biggest podcast on the whole place on the fastestest , the best pod, the best podcast on everything you can find it all, everywhere, the ultimate travel and everything you'll get it all!
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00:03:06.000This entire conversation about digital speech, the digital public square.
00:03:13.000And I said last night, and this is a part of it and I'll get into this later tonight, if we hear constantly that Big Tech cannot be regulated by the First Amendment or constrained in its ability to moderate based on the First Amendment because it's a private company,
00:03:31.000The dynamic totally changes when they have this incestuous relationship with the government.
00:03:38.000If all the big tech companies are federal contractors, which they are, and not only are they federal contractors, but they're getting direction on their moderation from the White House, and not even from, like, although they are from the Defense Department, but almost entirely from the Press Secretary's office,
00:03:58.000So in other words, from the PR wing of the White House, and really one of the most partisan agencies in the administration, well, it makes it really difficult to say that then they should not be constrained by constitutional law.
00:04:18.000It's kind of amazing, though, that it even needs to be said.
00:04:20.000I don't know that this is even like a surprise to anybody.
00:04:24.000But I know that I've been arguing with Destiny and other leftists for years, as long as I've been doing this show, that there even is a left-wing bias in content moderation.
00:04:35.000Let alone the federal contract relationship between the DoD and the intel agencies in Big Tech.
00:04:42.000Let alone the Press Secretary's involvement in Big Tech.
00:04:48.000But we have to, as always, we have to wait until we get the emails and discovery from some massive lawsuit coming from the states to prove what we all already knew.
00:04:58.000Which was obvious, basically, from the beginning.
00:05:08.000Bank of America, my friend, has launched a new effort to increase black and Hispanic home ownership and they're doing this by offering mortgages to blacks and Hispanics with no money down and no closing costs.
00:05:27.000So blacks and Hispanics in all the major cities in America, I think they're doing it in Miami, Dallas, LA, Detroit, Charlotte,
00:05:38.000Blacks and Hispanics will be able to get mortgages without putting any money down.
00:05:49.000So, essentially, they're able to get a mortgage just by signing up.
00:05:55.000If you want to get a house, you just sign up and borrow.
00:06:00.000And, by the way, during a record high real estate market, particularly here,
00:06:07.000In Miami and Dallas, hello, and Los Angeles, record high real estate, no money down, they can borrow the entire amount, and also no closing costs.
00:06:21.000So they get the loan for free at 6%, at 6% mortgage in the most expensive neighborhoods in America, for blacks and Hispanics.
00:06:53.000And if you know the story of 2008, very related to what happened in 2006.
00:06:59.000And it all goes back to the so-called subprime mortgages that were being lent out.
00:07:05.000And restrictions were loosened by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and people were able to take on debt that they could not pay for.
00:07:12.000And then when that debt was packaged up and sold as an asset class, as a very safe asset class to pension funds and to other major investors,
00:07:29.000Well, when people couldn't pay back the money, then that basically destroyed the entire stock market.
00:07:34.000And, you know, so I don't know if it's gonna play out exactly like that, but it's kind of like the same story right now.
00:07:40.000Bank of America, no down payment, no closing costs.
00:09:47.000Go to mymoviesplus.com to see the world premiere of the America First mini-documentary episode 3, which is about AfPak 3, starring me, Vince James, Kai Klipsch, Beardson, Wooza, Tyler Russell, everybody's in there!
00:10:04.000So you're gonna want to check it out, mymoviesplus.com.
00:11:14.000You know, whenever I'm away, whenever I'm not here in Chicago...
00:11:20.000I start to sleep at night because when you're in like a hotel I don't know why when you're in a hotel but you just tend to sleep at night I don't know why but you just maybe it's because you need to check out in the morning you check out at like 11 so it kind of forces you to wake up in the morning whenever I travel I find myself being awake during the day and sleeping at night so I got back and I've been on a good sleep schedule that's what I was saying
00:11:42.000And you know when I'm on a good, and when I say on a good sleep schedule, I mean sleeping at night.
00:11:47.000Because normally I'm sleeping during the day or I don't sleep for two days at a time.
00:11:53.000And I feel like, I feel physically better, like I look better, I feel better.
00:12:00.000I don't throw up, my energy level is high, you know, my mood is better, but I just, I don't feel creative.
00:12:07.000I feel like I get way more creative when I'm out all night and when I get manic, depressive, and I'm not, I'm not like a bipolar or whatever.
00:12:15.000When you stay up for like 24, 48 hours at a time,
00:12:19.000Your mood swings, you get adrenaline, and you kind of feel like sometimes you feel really good, then you want to kill yourself.
00:12:46.000And then when I'm just kind of going to bed at a normal bedtime and waking up in the morning, and I drink my coffee, and I read my paper, and I take the dog for a walk, and I drive to work, and I punch the clock, and I drive home, and I kiss my wife, and I eat my meatloaf, and you know, then it's like, then I'm just, the creativity's gone.
00:15:03.000My Dasher named Ralph is on his way with the chocolate glazed donut that I dreamt of, and my coffee, and I'm, you know, I'm rubbing my hands together.
00:15:30.000I opened the door yeah that's and that's like and that symbolizes I opened the door and there's a sad little Wendy's bag and I'm like my mind just like short-circuited I'm like Wendy's bag I'm like I'm like wait a second and like this moment of total like this is just depressing I'm thinking like maybe it's actually in there but they have the wrong bag like that makes sense I opened the door and I was so like crushed
00:15:59.000That like for a split second I thought, okay it came in a... my Dunkin' order came in a Wendy's bag.
00:16:07.000Like maybe I'm gonna open this Wendy's bag up and there'll be donuts and coffee inside.
00:21:18.000You know, we talked on Wednesday about American Express.
00:21:24.000American Express, one of the biggest credit card companies in the world.
00:21:29.000Major, mainstream, wealthy company, you know.
00:21:34.000And how there's this giant lawsuit against them after we even heard other reports from Manhattan Institute about all the anti-white discrimination going on there.
00:21:44.000That you've got anti-white racial sensitivity training, anti-white seminars, HR, they're passing up white people for promotions, they've got racial quotas, there's anti-white, non-white managers in the company that get promoted and get benefits.
00:22:02.000So that's American Express on Wednesday.
00:22:04.000Today we have an announcement from Bank of America, another one of the most major financial institutions in the country.
00:22:12.000And the story today is that they're now giving out mortgages to blacks and Hispanics with no money down, no 0% down payment, and no closing costs.
00:22:25.000And they say that they're doing this to increase black and Hispanic home ownership.
00:22:29.000So they're going into neighborhoods across the country
00:22:32.000In Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Charlotte, I just read them all off a moment ago, Detroit, and they're going in there and apparently, and it's weird because they say it's not just for blacks and Hispanics, but it also is.
00:22:49.000And they're giving them mortgages for no... So I'm trying to figure out, what's the program here?
00:22:55.000So if I'm a black guy, I walk into Bank of America and say, hey, I want to buy a $500,000 house.
00:23:31.000Bank of America said that it is now offering first-time homebuyers in a select group of cities zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgages to help grow home ownership among black and Hispanic communities.
00:23:46.000The option will first become available in certain neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami.
00:23:53.000Which are, by the way, some of the hottest, most expensive real estate markets
00:24:34.000Aims to help eligible individuals and families obtain an affordable loan to purchase a home, said the bank.
00:24:40.000Applicants do not have to be black or Hispanic to qualify for the product.
00:24:45.000And that's where I'm a little bit lost.
00:24:46.000On the one hand, they're saying, you know, we're gonna give you these houses for no money for blacks and Hispanics, but also you don't have to be black and Hispanic?
00:25:28.000said quote homeownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time.
00:25:35.000Our community affordable loan solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownerships attainable for more black and hispanic families and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.
00:25:47.000The loans require no mortgage insurance the additional fee typically charged to buyers who put down less than 20 percent of the purchase price and get this
00:27:10.000It says, instead, eligibility will be based on factors like timely rent payments and on-time utility bills, phone and auto insurance payments.
00:27:22.000Isn't that what your, well not quite, but isn't your credit score kind of like that?
00:27:27.000Prospective buyers must also complete a homebuyer certification course provided by Bank of America.
00:27:37.000Could you imagine a Bank of America classroom where you get a bunch of black people in there and they teach them about how to pay your bills on time?
00:27:56.000So they're doing a course provided by Bank of America and federally approved housing counseling partners before they apply for the loan program.
00:28:12.000They're all going to go to their community and neighborhood lending department for a course and then they're going to look at their Obama phone payment plan and then they're going to give them a $750,000 house in Orange County with no money down and no other fees or payments or credit check.
00:29:10.000So, I mean, what even is there to say?
00:29:14.000Well, for openers, let's just be serious for a moment.
00:29:17.000For openers, this is literally, this is exactly what caused the housing crisis in 2006.
00:29:25.000And one wonders if this is deliberate.
00:29:30.000Because this is exactly what caused the housing crisis in 2006.
00:29:36.000And if you don't know, in the 1990s under Bill Clinton, he instructed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, who are two of the biggest home loan guarantors in the country, they're a quasi-public-private entity, the restrictions were loosened for
00:29:55.000Banks to give out loans for housing under the same premise, which is they wanted to make home ownership more affordable and more accessible, so they loosened restrictions.
00:30:06.000They started giving out all, and I'm simplifying here, but they started giving out all of these loans to people that would not be able to pay them back.
00:30:14.000Home ownership, you know, it's great and everything, and there are problems and there are obstacles in the way of home ownership.
00:30:34.000But that doesn't change the underlying economics of the fact that if you, you know, whether a home is cheap or expensive and whether that's fair or not fair, whatever the relative cost of the home versus real wages, it's really immaterial.
00:30:52.000Someone can either pay for their mortgage or they can't.
00:30:56.000Someone can either afford that or they can't.
00:31:00.000And you establish that based on their income level, and you establish that based on their credit, and you establish that based on other factors.
00:31:09.000And those are the factors that should determine, that is what should govern whether or not a bank will give out a loan.
00:31:14.000Not whether or not the economy is not fair.
00:31:20.000And, you know, there's all kinds of reasons for that having to do with, like, for example, in California, there's tons of restrictions, particularly in Los Angeles and San Francisco, about building new homes.
00:31:32.000And it makes it very difficult for them to build
00:32:02.000When all these people default on their loans,
00:32:05.000And they can't pay back the money and the bank's got to foreclose on all these houses, then prices collapse.
00:32:10.000And then additionally, this precipitates a 2008 financial crisis because all of those bad loans were packaged up and they called these mortgage-backed security and a collateralized debt obligation.
00:32:24.000They packaged up the loans and they sold these out.
00:32:28.000To investors, particularly to pension funds and other funds, and they branded these as very safe investments.
00:32:36.000They said, these are these are home loans.
00:33:07.000But point being is, it's the same story here.
00:33:11.000Now, there's a couple of steps that are missing right now, but giving out these loans to people that, like, we have no way to establish they could pay back their mortgage, it's the same deal.
00:33:21.000It's the same mission of trying to make home ownership more affordable.
00:33:26.000You know how you make home ownership more affordable?
00:34:03.000They're going into Dallas and Miami, where it's all these minorities.
00:34:08.000And they're saying, you're going to be able to buy a house.
00:34:09.000Correct me if I'm wrong, this is how it's supposed to work.
00:34:12.000Blacks and Hispanics who walk into Bank of America, in the hottest real estate, most expensive real estate in the country, and say, I want to buy this house.
00:35:11.000Again, it's like I guess they have to empty their pockets.
00:35:13.000It's like okay Well, we've got a candy wrapper and a few $2 bills and an ID and you know Buffalo Wild Wings Rewards card and we've established based on that that we're gonna give you $500,000
00:35:44.000So God only knows what the effect of all this is going to be, but this is the kind of thing... And I've been saying this on my show for a long time.
00:35:55.000Things are just going to get worse in America.
00:36:20.000They do not have equal aptitudes, faculties, talents.
00:36:24.000So why would blacks have the same amount of home ownership as whites?
00:36:30.000If there's one individual and another individual, we wouldn't expect them to have comparable levels of things if they were unequal from the beginning.
00:36:39.000So the same would be true of groups then.
00:36:41.000Why would blacks as a group, and whites as a group, and Hispanics as a group, why would we expect them all to be equal in terms of their level of home ownership?
00:37:12.000In the 1990s they said, things are going great, the economy's never been better, housing's never been better, so what the heck, we'll just give these sorry black people some houses.
00:38:30.000But these are the ways in which society is going to get worse.
00:38:33.000Because of the demographic change, because of the kind of regime that we have, the character and the motivations of the regime that we have, these are the ways in which the country is just going to get worse.
00:38:47.000First time homebuyers, 0% down, such and such.
00:38:52.000These houses are all going to get foreclosed on, I mean, within five years.
00:38:57.000Watch, this is going to turn into another one of these cautionary tales, and in five years, these people are not going to pay their loans, and then you know who's going to go in and own them?
00:39:06.000China, BlackRock, the banks that gave out the loans.
00:39:11.000And really what you're looking at across the board is a is like a recapitulation just giving up all the wealth it's like the most regressive wealth transfer in modern history.
00:39:24.000Now that's really what this is about is when you look at what's happened in the economy over the past 30 years one way to look at it is like profound mismanagement and bad decisions and and
00:39:37.000You know, a debt crisis and liquidity crisis and currency crisis.
00:39:42.000Another way to look at it is that all of these policies, all these disasters, have really just moved the wealth from the hands of people into the hands of the banks and the firm owners.
00:39:55.000That's like the real way to look at it.
00:39:56.000And across the board you could look at it this way.
00:41:21.000Now one way to look at immigration from an economic point of view is that this is a disaster and that this is making it so that working class people, people without a college degree, high school graduates, people in the interior of the country, people that would get those jobs in agriculture or
00:41:38.000The landscaping jobs, service jobs, whatever.
00:41:41.000One way to look at it is that those people are out of a job and those people are now on welfare.
00:41:46.000And if they had a job like that, they're competing for low wages that firms can afford to pay because there's just so much labor.
00:41:53.000And so they've got to either take a low-paying job and get on welfare or they go on drugs or whatever.
00:41:59.000And one way to describe that is this is a catastrophe.
00:42:06.000Another way to look at it is that this is transferring the money that would have gone to workers
00:42:12.000This would have been labor cost, and the savings is now going to the people that own the firms that employ the most people.
00:42:20.000And who are, what are the industries and what are the firms that employ the most people?
00:42:25.000Federal government, Walmart, agriculture, farms, factories, manufacturing, McDonald's, the service jobs.
00:42:36.000So if the labor cost is being cut, overall, in absolute terms, if they only have to pay $5 an hour as opposed to $15 an hour because there's so much labor, that means that money is not being paid out to people.
00:42:50.000It's not going into income for people to support their family and build wealth over there.
00:42:55.000It's instead being saved, and that saved money is accruing to the shareholders and the people that own the companies.
00:43:12.000Look at what's happened to the housing market in the past few years.
00:43:14.000All the homes are being bought up now by major investment firms like BlackRock, Vanguard, being bought up by foreign investors from China.
00:43:25.000Take a look at these real estate markets like, for example, in Montana.
00:43:29.000When you see the people buying up all this land in Montana or Wyoming or Idaho and pushing the locals out, who's doing it?
00:43:36.000It's all these rich people from LA or it's these firms buying up entire neighborhoods to rent them out for money.
00:43:43.000And they're turning people from homeowners into renters.
00:43:46.000They're buying up all the capital, which is the homes.
00:43:49.000They're buying up all the hard assets and renting them out to the serfs.
00:43:54.000So people will go and rent a home and work at a low wage job
00:44:00.000And it's like that World Economic Forum article.
00:44:02.000They're going to own nothing and be happy.
00:44:04.000They'll have no assets, but they'll be able to make a small income, make no money from saving because interest rates are so low or were so low historically.
00:44:22.000And again, one way to look at that is this is a catastrophe for the economy, the housing bust, the financial meltdown, what's going to happen here.
00:44:32.000Another way to look at it is all the homes are being bought up, all the assets are being bought up, and so really it's working out for the rich.
00:44:42.000It was the largest transfer of wealth in human history where the world's billionaires became trillions of dollars richer and everybody else became poorer.
00:44:51.000Amazon did very well during the COVID recession.
00:44:55.000Amazon did well, Apple did well, Facebook, all the big tech companies, the S&P 5, they call it, the top five companies on the S&P 500.
00:45:07.000All the companies on the NASDAQ did very well.
00:45:10.000The companies that stayed open, that is, and were enclosed by the government,
00:45:18.000And, by the way, so, and anyway, so that, to be serious, that's like the effect.
00:45:22.000The other, the other cartoonish angle on this is that this is the extent to which we're gonna bend over backwards to accommodate black people.
00:45:30.000At what point are we gonna say enough is enough?
00:45:34.000This is explicitly geared towards black people.
00:45:37.000At what point do you say that we're living in an apartheid state?
00:45:41.000I know, again, that sounds like hyperbolic or like an exaggeration, but seriously.
00:45:46.000American Express has a class action lawsuit against it because they're giving all their jobs to black people.
00:45:52.000And it's bossy black people bullying white people in the vice president positions and they've got quotas on their board and quotas in their executive leadership.
00:46:00.000And then we hear two days later Bank of America goes out and says we're giving away mortgages if you're black.
00:46:10.000Don't put any, I mean, don't put any money down?
00:46:14.000What does being black have to do with putting money down for a house?
00:46:20.000A house is, for most people, the most expensive investment that they'll make.
00:46:27.000It's their biggest monthly expense, it's the biggest quote-unquote asset that they'll have in their life.
00:46:34.000What about being black means that you don't need to go in, you don't need to have any skin in the game, you don't need to invest any money into what would be, in a lot of these cities, a $250,000, $500,000, $750,000 home?
00:46:50.000What does one have to do with the other?
00:47:16.000So I guess they're just getting all that for free.
00:47:18.000The bank is going to put up money to give over free investment advice.
00:47:24.000They're going to cover the closing costs.
00:47:26.000They're going to cover the cost if blacks are not able to make the payments because there's no insurance.
00:47:38.000I just, you know, they're just giving it away based on the fact that they're black.
00:47:43.000I don't think that was ever part of the bargain.
00:47:45.000And that's in addition to, and we've covered a million stories like this this year, at the beginning, or I guess since Biden's become president.
00:47:53.000Last year, we heard that all of the COVID stimulus, all of it, from Biden's stimulus plan, or at least the restaurant stimulus, the agricultural stimulus, and I think there was one other particular kind,
00:48:08.000All of them were prioritized for black and hispanic and other racial minorities to receive the funds first.
00:48:16.000They wouldn't even process white people's applications until all the black and hispanic and other underprivileged people's applications were processed.
00:48:26.000And all the funds ran out before a single white application was processed.
00:48:30.000So the government's just giving their stimulus money.
00:48:34.000And, you know, we covered a story recently, I think.
00:48:40.000I think it was in the last military authorization bill, or it was another big spending bill.
00:48:47.000The one that they just got through with the budgetary rule in the Senate, they got it through with 51 votes.
00:48:53.000I forget if it was the infrastructure bill or some other bill.
00:48:56.000But you had like $300 billion for climate, you had $200 billion for this, and then they literally had in there $50 billion just for minorities.
00:49:04.000Like, it said nothing other than that.
00:49:06.000It said, well, we're gonna throw in, it's this big climate bill, $300 billion for climate, it's gonna be $100 billion for EV, and $100 billion for this, and $50 billion for environmental impact on blacks and Hispanics.
00:49:18.000It was just like, it was just $50 billion just for blacks for being black.
00:49:22.000Just for blacks and Hispanics for being non-white.
00:49:26.000So the COVID money goes to the blacks and Hispanics.
00:49:28.000The environmental money goes to the blacks and Hispanics.
00:49:32.000They account for 6% of the tax revenue, 26% of the outflows coming from the government in the form of entitlements and welfare and other cash payments.
00:49:48.000And then on top of it, then the private institutions are doing this as well.
00:49:54.000And then, I don't know if you saw, they're also doing this on YouTube.
00:49:57.000They started up a program for black creators, or if you're a small black YouTuber, small black creator on YouTube with like a thousand subscribers, you can apply for this program and they send you a camera, they send you a microphone, they give you access to advisors that tell you how to work the algorithm, and it's like,
00:50:22.000But we still hear, oh systemic racism, systemic racism.
00:50:27.000Blacks have it easier than anybody in the history of mankind right now.
00:50:34.000A black person with average intelligence could get a full ride to an Ivy League school.
00:50:40.000They could get a free camera from YouTube.
00:50:42.000They could get a free mortgage from Bank of America.
00:50:45.000They could get promoted through the ranks in American Express.
00:50:48.000They could become the vice president in the Biden administration.
00:50:52.000They get the COVID stimulus and they get it forgiven.
00:50:57.000For being black, and what do us stupid-ass white people get other than to subsidize all of this?
00:51:03.000Other than to subsidize all of this by paying the taxes, subsidize all of this by, we're the ones working the jobs, we're the ones being the cops, we're the ones paying the speeding tickets, and so on.
00:51:57.000They get priced out of school, priced out of housing by foreigners, Jews, and the government.
00:52:04.000And they wind up shooting themselves, getting addicted to heroin and dying, or they marry a nurse and they become some cuck faggot where their wife makes more money than them because the biggest employer in town is a hospital and a school.
00:53:51.000I get banned from banks, I get banned, you know, now I don't want to just turn in all my problems, but think of it, like that's what it's like for white people.
00:53:58.000Trump supporters, conservatives, white people, but if you're like a black liberal, just they roll out the red carpet for you.
00:56:18.000You're just like, and you don't have any kind of scam going on, you're just like a bitch because you're getting in your car, you're driving to work, you're paying your gas, you're paying your tax, and you work so that you can live, and all the tax money you give is going to Israel, it's going to Ukraine, Taiwan, and it's going to the black guy that is going to steal your car and kill you, potentially, and kill your kids.
00:57:04.000I want to get into this social media story because I feel like we're going to run out of time again if I don't cut that one off.
00:57:10.000So our feature story is about Big Tech and like I said, whoops, this just goes way beyond like I think anything that anybody imagined, even on our side, about how bad the collusion is.
00:57:23.000And I was supposed to talk about this tomorrow, or rather yesterday.
00:57:43.000According to this new lawsuit, which has been launched by the state attorney general in Missouri, we've now got hard evidence that there are people throughout the Biden administration and throughout big tech that are in constant communication with each other.
00:57:59.000YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter all have dozens of contacts throughout the Biden administration.
00:58:07.000And when I say throughout, I don't mean like there's a lot of people.
00:58:18.000There are people in the State Department.
00:58:21.000When I say throughout, I mean in all facets of the government are in contact with the biggest social media companies, the biggest big tech companies in America.
00:58:31.000Particularly talking to them about content moderation.
00:58:35.000This is something that we were led to believe can't happen, doesn't happen, isn't happening, can't happen.
00:58:42.000They tell us that there's the public sector and the private sector.
00:58:46.000And the public sector is governed by the Constitution, in this case like the First Amendment, and the private sector isn't.
00:58:52.000And the public sector represents one form of power, and the private sector is maybe sympathetic, but different.
00:59:01.000I've argued for years that that's ridiculous.
00:59:15.000They're inextricably bound up by many different kinds of things.
00:59:19.000For example, federal government contracts.
00:59:22.000All of the big tech companies, their biggest customer is the federal government.
00:59:28.000The Federal Government contracts with Google, contracts with Apple, contracts with Amazon.
00:59:35.000I don't think a lot of people even know that.
00:59:37.000When people think of Amazon, they think of, maybe they used to think of books, maybe now they think of Amazon Prime, maybe they think about, you know, two-day shipping or something.
01:00:03.000Federal government's contracting with Apple.
01:00:05.000Where do you think the government gets their phones?
01:00:07.000Where do you think the government gets their tech?
01:00:09.000They buy their tech from tech companies.
01:00:11.000If the federal government is a technological enterprise, and it is, federal government is the biggest employer in America, and if the federal government is in the business of computers and phones, what, do you think they make their own computers and phones?
01:00:26.000Do you think they buy them from overseas?
01:00:29.000The federal government buys their tech from Big Tech.
01:00:32.000The federal government's the biggest customer of Big Tech, or one of them, and it doesn't just invest in these companies purchasing things from them.
01:00:40.000It collaborates with these companies, and it collaborates with Big Tech on AI, and it collaborates with Big Tech on surveillance, and it collaborates with Big Tech on R&D, and defense, and national security, and so
01:00:54.000Facebook and Amazon and Apple are just as much a part of the national security apparatus actually as Lockheed Martin or Raytheon, which are defense contractors.
01:01:06.000You know, people talk about how we went to war in Vietnam so that the defense contractors could make money because, you know, you send in helicopters into Vietnam and you blow up Vietnam with missiles and somebody's selling the missiles, somebody's selling the helicopters.
01:01:22.000And you go to Iraq, and you gotta bring helicopters and missiles and tanks and bullets, and guess who wins?
01:01:28.000The people that make helicopters and bullets and tanks.
01:01:30.000If they're in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they have military vehicles idling for 20 years, again, who profits?
01:01:41.000People understand, okay, the tank companies make money off the wars.
01:01:45.000The tank companies have to work with the DOD.
01:01:50.000$700-$800 billion military budget per year, and where's that money being spent?
01:01:54.000Well, yeah, some of it on wages and some of it on other things, maintenance.
01:02:00.000But how much of that $800 billion per year, that's a huge sum of money, how much of that $800 billion is going to, like, three firms?
01:02:11.000And who's making money off of that, right?
01:02:14.000Well, people understand that, but the relationship between Big Tech and the DOD and the State Department and the others, increasingly it's as connected, if not more connected.
01:02:28.000So you've got they sell the phones, they collaborate in R&D and other things, but then you've also got it's the same people.
01:02:35.000The Biden administration is full of people that used to work for big tech, people that used to work for Facebook, people who used to work for Google.
01:02:42.000Take a cursory look at the Biden cabinet.
01:02:45.000People on the transition team in 2020, now people in the cabinet, I think the chief of staff used to work at Google or one of those companies.
01:02:55.000So when I say they're inextricably bound up, I don't mean like the people at Google are liberal.
01:03:01.000I mean that Google and Amazon and Apple, they do so much business with the government, there's not a meaningful distinction between them and the government.
01:03:10.000They're like another branch of the government.
01:03:12.000They're like another wing of the government.
01:03:19.000People are arguing on the left that that's not happening.
01:03:22.000People on the right are arguing that Twitter's a private company and therefore, you know, they shouldn't be subject to certain things and yada yada yada.
01:03:32.000And this is according to the New York Post.
01:03:36.000It says, quote, the Biden administration worked in tandem with social media giants like Facebook and Twitter to censor statements they deemed misinformation about topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, according to two Republican state attorneys general on Thursday, as they pushed for the release of emails between top executive branch officials and big tech titans.
01:03:58.000In a petition filed on Wednesday in Louisiana Federal Court, State Attorney General Jeff Landry and his Missouri counterpart Eric Schmidt charged that dozens of federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies engaged in a massive, sprawling federal censorship enterprise with the intent and effect of pressuring social media platforms to censor and suppress private speech that federal officials disfavor.
01:04:25.000The Biden Administration has not been shy about leaning on social media.
01:04:29.000On July 15, 2021, then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted her colleagues were flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.
01:04:41.000She said, quote, it's important to take faster action against harmful posts and Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts.
01:04:50.000The following day, Biden accused platforms like Facebook of killing people by allowing so-called misinformation to propagate unchecked.
01:04:59.000Shortly after Biden's comments and email from an unidentified Facebook official to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy read in part, quote, So Facebook's emailing the government and saying, uh, what is your expectation about censorship?
01:05:12.000Like they're a subsidiary of the government.
01:05:24.000That's not how private... Do private companies reach out to the government and say, hey, tell us what you want us to censor?
01:05:33.000That's not private in any meaningful way.
01:05:36.000Seven days later, on July 23rd, the same Facebook official proudly informed officials at the Department of Health and Human Services that the company was taking action against a group dubbed the Disinformation Dozen for their posts about COVID vaccines.
01:05:53.000The email said, quote, we removed 17 additional pages, groups, and Instagram accounts tied to the disinfo dozen.
01:06:00.000So a total of 39 profiles, pages, groups, and Instagram accounts deleted thus far, resulting in every member of the dozen having had at least one such entity removed.
01:06:10.000We also expanded the group of false claims that we removed to keep up with recent trends of misinformation that we are seeing.
01:06:17.000The relationship was so cozy that on July... so cozy... that on July 20th, 2021, White House COVID response team digital director Clark Humphrey received a response from Facebook in seconds when he asked about getting a fake Dr. Anthony Fauci Instagram account taken down.
01:06:37.000Humphrey wrote to Facebook along with a link to the account, Hi there, any way we could get this pulled down?
01:06:52.000Another email from April 2021 shows a scheduled meeting for White House staffers to be briefed by Twitter on vaccine misinformation.
01:07:00.000Still another record from July 28th of that year shows a Facebook official proposing to a CDC counterpart that quote, in addition to our weekly meetings, doing a monthly misinfo debunking meeting
01:07:14.000With maybe claim topics communicated a few days prior so that you can bring in the matching experts and chat casually for 30 minutes or so.
01:07:43.000They also claim that officials at other agencies, including the Census Bureau, the FDA, the FBI, the State Department, and the Treasury Department, were at least aware of the censorship enterprise.
01:07:59.000In addition to the document dump, MEDA has disclosed that at least 32 officials, including workers at the FDA, U.S.
01:08:05.000Electronic Assistance Commission, and the White House, have communicated with the company about content moderation
01:08:12.000But those contacts weren't disclosed in the government's disclosures, according to the two Attorney Generals.
01:08:18.000YouTube disclosed contacts with 11 officials, some of which weren't shared by the government in response to the lawsuit.
01:08:29.000There is abject, far-reaching, thorough collusion between Big Tech and the government on contact.
01:08:39.000Not on national security, not, I mean,
01:08:42.000They're intervening the government is directly intervening and giving orders on what should and should not be on the platforms.
01:08:52.000To the point where and it's like in this email like that I can't get over this one they reach out and say hey in addition to our weekly meetings can we also do 30 minutes with
01:11:22.000And so all of the entities are connected.
01:11:25.000They're connected by money, they're connected by personnel, they email each other, they all share the same agenda.
01:11:33.000If this doesn't show you what's going on, how the censorship agenda on Big Tech has aligned with the government agenda, how the government agenda has lined up with the the broader globalist agenda,
01:11:46.000It's so curious that after Trump won the election, it's almost like Google and Facebook and Twitter and the Democrats and the regular media companies all got together and said, yeah, this guy can never hold power ever again.
01:12:01.000And undertook, over the course of five years, to ban every prominent Trump supporter, ban Trump himself, ban everything that Trump ran on, ban him from talking about election fraud or COVID or BLM or war with Russia.
01:12:16.000And then ultimately do the final, the coup de grace, which is to prevent him from running with the FBI raid and this DOJ investigation here after the midterms.
01:12:34.000And where are all these people, where are all these liberals?
01:12:37.000On a story like this, you get a lot of liberals out there, and the most they might say is something like, you know, oh yeah, censorship goes too far, or I'm in favor of free speech.
01:12:46.000Yeah, it's like not enough to be in favor of free speech.
01:12:49.000It's really, it's, and again, it's not even so much about free speech so much as it is about this collusion.
01:13:39.000And they're doing that because they're an arm of the regime.
01:13:43.000So a censorship action is an act against dissent and it's an act of the regime.
01:13:48.000When people go out there and say, it's a private company and they just have these left-wing policies, it's not a private company independent with a bias.
01:13:57.000It's a completely dependent public entity that is using censorship power to benefit the establishment and the status quo.
01:14:09.000And so suffice to say, when people say, oh, we'll just make our own site, well that betrays the complete naivete about the situation.
01:14:19.000The problem is not the private company banned me, the problem is they're crushing all dissent.
01:14:25.000And so if a private company bans you, you'd be like, oh, I'll build my own site.
01:14:43.000It's like, well, insofar as the regime controls all these institutions, insofar as the regime controls public and private life, that's not gonna work.
01:14:52.000Insofar as the regime controls all of public and private life through the government and all the private entities like the media, the social media, the finance,
01:15:46.000That's not independent, and that's not private, and that's not a bias.
01:15:51.000That doesn't explain all these entities working in a conspiratorial manner like that, in a way they're clearly colluding.
01:15:58.000All the media, social media, government banks, all tag-teaming the guy at the same time in one week shows that speaking on the internet is not being on a private company and talking.
01:16:12.000It's like standing in a government office.
01:16:14.000You might as well be on a government sanction.
01:16:16.000It's like going on NPR and trying to say, you know, Biden's a criminal and a pedo or something.
01:16:39.000Well, their existence is protected by federal law and they're receiving direction from the federal government and their federal contractors.
01:16:47.000So you tell me how that makes them meaningfully a private company.
01:17:18.000Which says that they would be shielded from legal liability for the content on their platforms because there's a public interest in having information on these platforms or something like that.
01:17:30.000It said that there's a public interest served.
01:17:33.000This is like good for democracy because there's information that could be posted.
01:17:37.000So there's a provision in federal law which shields them from legal liability which is not true of New York Times or NBC or other media companies.
01:17:46.000So these are government protected monopolies, federal contractors, and now proven literally receiving direction on editorial moderation decisions coming from the White House, coming from the Press Secretary, coming from the Defense Department, coming from Health and Human Services.